About the author

For thirty years I picked the spot where people stop paying attention.

I'm a former spy. I left in 2018 as Deputy Director of Clandestine Operations. In my old work I waited for people in garages, in hotels and in airports. I could always tell who had been trained.

A predator chooses the way I chose: a place where you feel safe, a moment when you look down. So I wrote down what I told my daughter to do in each of those places. That's Where He Waits, twelve everyday places, one page each. My free safety card has six of the rules.

I also spent those years across the table from people who lied for a living, and other people paid when I got it wrong. My daughter sent me three videos that teach people to be cold on purpose, with one line underneath: “Are you going to leave this conversation to them?” I didn't answer her for a week. Then I started writing. That's my two books.

D.K.